Mailbag protector



Oct. 14; .1947. w. FREED MAIL BAG fROTECTOR Filed Oct. 12, 1945 2 Sheebs-Sheet 1 Oct. 14, 1947. g, FR E 2,429,019

. MAIL BAG PROTECTOR Filed Oct. 12, 1945 I 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Oct. 14, 1947 UNITED STATE S PAT EN T O F FIC'E MAILBAG PROTECTOR Raymond W. Freed, Inglewood, Calif.

Application October 12, 1945, Serial No. 621,871

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to a mail bag protector and it is primarily an object of the invention to provide an article of this kind adapted for securement to a mail sack and of such a character as to be disposed over the upper portion of the mail sack in a manner to effectively protect the contents of the sack against rain and the like and in a manner which in no way interferes with the ready access of the postman to such contents within the sack.

Furthermore, it is an object of the invention to provide an article of this kind which, when in use, is attached to the mail sack, or more particularly the shoulder strap therefor, and in a manner whereby the sack with the applied protector can be carried with equal facility on either shoulder of the person.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts of my improved mail bag protector whereby certain important advan tages are attained, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order that my invention may be better understood. I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a view in plan of a protector constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention, unapplied;

, Figure 2 is a section on line 22 of Figure 1, illustrating the protector in applied or working position;

Figure 3 is a detail fragmentary sectional view taken longitudinally through a buckle and showing the manner in which the bag strap and the flexible member are connected therewith;

Figure 4 is a view in plan of the sheet of water proof material;

Figure 5 is a view in plan of the flexible member: and

Figure 6 is a fragmentary detail showing a portion of the shirred edge of the water proof sheet to ether with the flexible member, buckle and bag strap.

The protector as herein embodied comprises a flexible sheet S of water-proof material which, at its top end, is preferably of a length of thirty inches with said upper marginal portion returned to provide therealong a hem or casing I open at opposite ends.

The lower marginal edge 2 of the sheet S is disposed on an arcuate outbow taken on a radius from the center of the upper edge 3 of the sheet 2 S and, in practice, the high point 4 of the sheet S is preferably substantially thirty-six inches from the upper edge 3 and with the side edges 5 at the lower ends equidistantly spaced from the center line of the sheet S.

The ends of the outwardly curved lower edge '2 of the sheet S are spaced, in practice, substantially fifty-four inches and the side edges 5 are straight and disposed inwardly toward the upper edge 3 and each of said side edges 5, in practice, is preferably substantially thirty inches in length.

The dimensions of the sheet S, as hereinbefore given, are such as to assure the sheet S being effectively disposed over a mail bag and applied thereto in a manner to effectively protect the contents of the bag B against rain or the like and in a manner to in no way interfere with the ready access of the postman to the contents of the bag.

Freely threaded through the hem or casing l is a tape or other flexible member 6 of a length in excess of the length of the hem or casing I.

In applying the device, the upper marginal portion of the sheet S, or that portion thereof provided with the hem or casing l. is shirred to allow such portion to have a width equal to the distance between the conventional buckles of the usual strap 8 of the bag B and to which buckles the extended extremities of the tape or flexible member 6 are suitably attached. This results in the sheet S being secured to the bag B, or more particularly the strap 8 thereof, in a manner whereby, when the strap 8 is disposed over a shoulder of the postman, the upper part of the applied sheet will be so disposed over the shoulder of the postman and the bag B to effectively protect the contents of the bag B against rain or the like yet in no way hindering the postman having desired access to the contents of the bag.

The material from which the sheet S is made forms no part of the present invention other than it is important that it be impervious to moisture.

I claim:

A protector for a mail bag having a shoulder strap and buckles thereon for coupling the bag to the strap comprising a flexible sheet of material impervious to moisture, a mar inal portion of the sheet being of greater width than the space between the buckles and constituting the top of the sheet, said too being formed to provide a tubu ar hem, a flexible member passing through said hem and lying with the hem upon the top of the strap, the ends of the flexib e member being engaged through said buckles, and the RAYMOND W. FREED.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

Number Number 4 UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date Rusk May 14, 1912 Orr July 19, 1921 Rathemacher Apr. 18, 1939 FOREIGN PATENTS Country Date Great Britain Jan. 1, 1931 Great Britain Apr. 19, 1943 

